June 2015

Though no official bouts have been announced the August 1st card in Redwood City, CA is taking shape as junior bantamweight Bruno “The Aloha Kid” Escalante (13-1 6KOs) returns after nearly a year and half layoff after a hand injury that occurred in his last bout against Victor Ruiz

Unbeaten 2012 Olympic super heavyweight gold medalist Heavyweight Anthony Joshua (13-0, 13 KOs) has pulled out of a July 18 fight at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. No reason has been officially given, but it seems that Joshua will return September 12th at The O2 Arena in London on

Nonito Donaire Sr. trained boxer, welterweight Rudy Macedo (1-0 1KO) of Novato, CA hasn’t been in the ring since October of last year when he put together an impressive knockout of Mario Aguirre in Sacramento, CA. Macedo, a highly decorated amateur world champion who was a PAL champion, 5 times

Hall of Fame boxer Oscar De La Hoya last week made ill-fated comments stating that he would return to the ring to face Gennady Golovkin. The statement know looks in hindsight to be more of a bit of a shock statement to generate headlines in front of a few Golden

On Friday, July 17 at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, will be headlined by Antoine Douglas (17-0-1, 11 KOs) of Burke, VA and Istavan Szili (18-0-2, 8 KOs) of Frenkendorf, Switzerland. Douglas most notably spent some of his last camp sparring with Andre Ward in preparation for his bout with Paul

Well, the fight we have been waiting for sometime between Miguel Cotto and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is at least begun negotiations with a date to be determined as New York, Texas and Las Vegas all seem to be front runners for landing the fight with, the Thomas & Mack Center

As we are halfway through 2015 it is about that we start to look at 2016 and with 2016 comes the Olympic Games in Rio. Bantamweight Ruben Villa of Salinas, CA and super heavyweight Marlo “Deion” Moore of San Leandro, CA will move onto the Olympic Qualifiers later this year.

In a very interesting exclusive with Ivan G. Goldman of BoxingInsider.com, California State Athletic Commissioner John Frierson says Al Haymon was purposely booking venues in California to sabotage rival promotions, in particular Golden Boy Promotions, who is currently suing Haymon along with the brokers who have funded his boxing endeavor.

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